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Welcome! In front of me I have Garmin Venue SQ-Music and I'm gonna show you
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how to enable the phone notifications for this watch on the Android phone
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Before we start, if you want to get the phone notifications on your watch, your
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watch needs to be paired with your phone via the Garmin Connect application
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Once the devices are paired we need to make sure that the required permissions
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are allowed for the notifications to work. So we need to find the Garmin Connect
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application icon. We need to press and hold on it. Tap on the app info. Then we
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need to tap on permissions right here and now we need to allow the
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permissions, required permissions for the notifications to work. First we need to
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tap on calendar and allow it. Then go back. Next we need to allow the call logs
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Then contacts, I believe. Phone and the SMS. Once you allow all of these
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permissions you can close this menu. Now open the settings on your phone. In the
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settings tap on apps and notifications. Tap on advanced. Scroll down. Tap on
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special app access. Here find the notification access option and tap on it
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Now find the Garmin Connect on the list. Select it and we need to allow the
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notification access for the Garmin Connect app. So select the Garmin Connect
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Tap on the switch. Tap on allow and once it's allowed right here we can close the
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settings. And now we can open the Garmin Connect application on our phone. In the
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app we can tap on the menu. To open the menu tap on the Garmin devices. Select
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our venue SQ from the list. On the device page we can scroll down. Tap on alerts
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option. Then tap smart notifications and here we can customize the notification settings. We have during an activity and not during an activity and
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also we have privacy. So basically during activities the options for the
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notifications while you're recording the activity. So if you're running, swimming or something like that and you're recording the activity on your watch. And
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the next option is not during activity. So it's when you use your watch normally
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without recording any activity. So let's tap on during activity and here we can
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select a couple of options. Show all, calls and texts only, calls and off. Select the
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option you like by tapping on it. Then we have not during activity and again
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select the option you like and privacy option. Basically you can select off
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action and gesture. Okay once you've done customizing your settings now you
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should be able to receive the notifications on your watch. So I'm gonna
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open the Discord and send myself a message on Discord. So give me a couple
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of seconds. And as you can see we got the message on our phone the notification and also we
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got it on our watch. If you miss the notification on your watch you can
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swipe or wake up the screen on your watch then swipe down or up on the
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screen until you find the notifications. And here you can tap on the
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notification to read it. You can swipe up, dismiss it, mark as read, reply or block
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the app if you want to. And you can also I believe swipe on the notification right
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here. No, you need to open it to dismiss it. So you need to tap on it and tap on
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dismiss right here to dismiss it like this. Okay and that's how you enable the
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phone notifications for this watch on the Android phone. Thank you for watching
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